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The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

Ben Harper

I grew up with the Blind Boys’ music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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Boys California Kind
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one’s own self-obsession.
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Firsts Obsession Self
You can run away from home But you can’t run away from your pain I sit here alone There’s always someone else to blame.
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Home Pain Running
We’ve all got stardust in our bones.
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Bones Stardust Stars
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
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Ethics Long Moral
It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can’t return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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Boys Discovery Lesson Life
Don’t be discouraged by writer’s block. Writer’s block just means you need to listen to other music.
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Block Mean Needs
My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it’s recorded.
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Band Records Song
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
BEN HARPER

Ideas Stronger Ties
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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Interview Lifetime Men
You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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Difference Live Photograph Time
It’s not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can’t just sing about anything.
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Anything Duets Mother Son
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
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Arrogant Guy Humble
Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Believe Distance Relationship
Try it first And you’ll see its a blessing And it’s not a curse
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Blessing First Trying
As a songwriter, I don’t rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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May Music Two Years

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

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